Just another example of an overanxious country fussing over details? Probably. There's 5,000 years' worth of culture and insight inside these geopolitical borders waiting to impress itself upon the world, and we'd hate to see that coming-out party marred by nonstandard bathroom direction plates.

But that's another story. We just thought we'd take this moment to present some clean, good ol' toilet humor -- urinals, toilets, pictograms, oh my!

And lest you forget where we're reporting from, it's China, after all, that opened "the world's largest restroom," complete with "Virgin Mary-theme urinals." Yep.

POSTSCRIPT: Also from the BOCOG article: "Beijing, with 5,174 public toilets, has outpaced New York, London and Tokyo and become the world's No. 1 metropolis as far as public toilets are concerned." We wonder if they're including squat toilets, the use of which forces the user to exercise strange, underutilized core muscles that'd make any plyometrics trainer proud. Because those most definitely should not count. Trust us.